St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-03
by thousands because they found profusion
OF everything at alleged cheap prices.

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Last week lady who was shopping Mt this
place was pouneed upon by floor walker,
charged with theft and committed to prison.
In vain she plead her innocence, and was not
even permitted to send O note TO her husband.
She was thrust In cell Mt the station house
ana Kept over night. The next morning
when the fearful little woman was brought
ihto che court there was no evidence against
her, and tho judge discharged her just as the
husband, who had been searching I'LL night
Tor his lost wife, entered the court room. The
scene was an affecting one, and when the
crowd of people In attendance ut the court
room learned the particulars OF the outrage,
they urged the husband to arm himself with
u shotgun and kin the brutal proprietor Of
the dry goods establishment.
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The husband was sensible enough to loave
the work OF vengeance to more capable
agent than the shotgun. The newspapers
TOOK ~ up. They jumped upon MACY's gilded
| den OF ruffiaps, and smashed it. The Graphic
led the crusade. illustrating the whole affair
IL pictured the arrest, the dragging OF the
victim through the streets by u burly police
man, the forlorn woman in the cell and her
arraignment before the court. That one
issue OF the paper wiped MACY's whole bust
ness out OF existence. After all. the news
paper is the best regulator in the world, and
the most reliable champion of the helpless
and oppressed.
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Mr.. BLAINE will not get the support Of the
Illinois delegates in the next convention. He
went direct to ST. Louis without stopping in
Chicago.
1t was Hail to the Chief" in tho Treasury
department Friday. The grand army of
clerks i'll that department wanted to make the
new secretary and his first assistant feel at
home. These treasury clerks are wise in their
day and generation and know on which side
| of the bread TO spread butter.
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| reduction of nearly S13000,000 in the
public debt is Il good record for the month OF
March. 1t is also good Introduction for Mr..
Secretary FAIRCHILD. AS the public debt
decreases there is that much more argument
| in favor OF tariff reduction. The country will
get around to tariff reform after awhile.
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| 1t begins to look as if tariff reform was
really making Roadway sure enough when the
Connecticut legislature adopts resolutions de-
caring IN favor Of the removal of the tariff
from raw materials. When tariff reduction
boom strikes New England state it Is time
for other sections to be putting on tariff re-
form garments.
An old real estate campaigner who went
through the Ashland boom, returns home
with many eomical "reminiscences of his adj
ventures. And that is about all he did bring
home with him. He didn't have much money
when he got back, but he says he had several
thousand dollars worth of fun while he was
| gone
| young ST. Paul man who had saved $500
from his years salary, was impressed with
the idea that be could make fortune at Ash
land. He went up while the boom was at
fever heat and placed the whole of his years
savings on ten days option on 5-acre
lot. The lot looked mighty pretty on the plat
displayed to him by the real estate dealer, and
he started out early next morning to look over
his imperial possessions.
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About the middle of the same afternoon
the same young man, with a languid step
and wiping the perspiration from his brow,
wendell his way to the piazza of the main
hotel in the town. Where have you been,
jim, that you look SO tired out?'' asked a
compassionate friend. II have been hunting
up my fve-acre lot, was the reply. Ibid
| you find itT' II Gid. But I had to walk
sixteen miles before ] got to it, and when 1
got there the bears and tho wildcats were so
| plentiful was afraid to venture Oh it,
tell you what it is, BILL. the next time come
! to Ashland to buy town lots l am going to
bring my Winchester rifle along"
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! The old campaigner says that the maxi
mum profit made by any one man during the
Ashland boom was $l.SOO. few others
made rs high as $1,000, several dealers
scooped in profit of $500 and $500. but that
the great bulk of the spectators got nothing
but burnt fingers.